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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that Deputy Paul J. Connaughton also has an interest in this issue as it relates to our constituencies. I presume that with the increased numbers attending agricultural colleges, there is increased strain on resources, for example, in the college in Pallaskenry, County Limerick, in my constituency. Is there any plan to increase funding to ensure the stress and strain on teaching staff...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I want to ask Mr. O'Driscoll about non-compliance in Natura areas. He will be aware that large areas in my county of Limerick have been designated as special areas of conservation. The National Parks and Wildlife Service has imposed specific practices on land to protect certain habitats such as that of the hen harrier. Will Mr. O'Driscoll tell me how many times the Department of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that. I am specifically-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: If someone is unfortunate enough to own some land in a special area of conservation, most of which is bad and very heavy in nature, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine will ask why he or she has not cut the rushes or done this or that. If his or her defence is that the National Parks and Wildlife Service has told him or her to protect the habitat of the hen harrier, the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Why then have penalties been imposed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: When we visited officials in the European Commission, that was not their assessment. They firmly believed this should not be happening. The understanding I received was that they had communicated this to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That is why I asked.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has the Department had discussions with the European Commission in this regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: We spoke to people who gave us anecdotal evidence that the potential liability to the State for failing to treat landowners in accordance with the wishes of the European Commission in the handing down of these directives to protect habitats could be up to €130 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Department is aware of penalties being imposed on farmers for non-compliance with National Parks and Wildlife Service regulations.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Flag (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 13. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has been in contact with the British Imperial War Museum in relation to a National Flag captured in Limerick in 1916, with a view to having it returned to Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23549/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 23. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider increasing the amount available to local authorities for the protection of listed structures, and those structures under threat; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23546/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will withdraw the recently-revised application forms from her Department and replace them with the previously-issued forms, in which payment at the post office is the first option and no recommendation is made on the application as to the best payment option; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24315/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Deposit Guarantee Scheme (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance in regard to the deposit guarantee directive, if he will use discretion under the directive to ensure that credit unions are to be charged at a lower rate of contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24316/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Potato Sector (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grant aid available to a farmer to construct a potato store on that farmer's land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24454/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 210. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 480 of 21 April 2015, the position regarding the review of the nursing adaption programme by Nursing Homes Ireland, the Health Service Executive and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, in view of the fact that he previously indicated that this would commence in February 2015 and the executive is now advising...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on an application for the amalgamation of two schools (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24248/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Secondment (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding secondments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24460/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Secondment (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to amend the directive issued from her Department that all secondees, regardless of their training or specialism, return to their base schools after five years, as this will result in the reduction of reading recovering teacher leaders from nine to seven, in view of the fact that nine reading recovery teacher leaders could train all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Transport Council: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (17 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: As the discussion drifted on, it has prompted me to raise another issue with the Minister, which I accept it may not be possible to address in the short term but which I would nevertheless like the Department to consider, namely, job creation around our ports. As an island country, we are totally dependent on our ports. In the context of our earlier discussion around TEN-T, in my estimation...